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Fatal flaws in agbiotech regulatory policies

Nature Biotechnology volume 25, pages 725727 (2007) | Download Citation

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The major national regulatory regimes for agbiotech products fail to satisfy scientific legitimacy on several counts.

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  1. Alan McHughen is in the Department of Botany & Plant Sciences at the University of California, Riverside, California 92521-0124, USA. alanmc@ucr.edu

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